GRAMPS 3.2.0 has been successfully installed and tested on Solaris 11 Express (SPARC platform) by building GRAMPS from source. ( [http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/Gramps-3-2-0-and-Solaris-11-Express-td3697457.html Building Gramps on Solaris 11 Express] & [http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/Gramps-3-2-0-and-Solaris-11-Express-td3697457.html], By Matt Keenan

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===Solaris Platforms===

GRAMPS 3.0.1 has been successfully installed and tested on both the latest releases of Solaris 10 (SPARC platform) and [http://opensolaris.org OpenSolaris] 2008.05 (X86 platform) by building GRAMPS from source.

GRAMPS 3.0.1 has been successfully installed and tested on both the latest releases of Solaris 10 (SPARC platform) and [http://opensolaris.org OpenSolaris] 2008.05 (X86 platform) by building GRAMPS from source.

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'''Note:''' You must download and build a version of the Python BSDDB Interface which supports the version of Berkeley DB installed on your system.

'''Note:''' You must download and build a version of the Python BSDDB Interface which supports the version of Berkeley DB installed on your system.

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====Python ReportLab====

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====Python ReportLab (do not need on 3.2 and later)====

* Download Report 2.1 (latest version at the time of writing), from [http://www.reportlab.org/ftp www.reportlab.org/ftp]

* Download Report 2.1 (latest version at the time of writing), from [http://www.reportlab.org/ftp www.reportlab.org/ftp]

* Unpack, build and install

* Unpack, build and install

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% su

% su

# python setup.py install

# python setup.py install

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===Installing GRAMPS===

===Installing GRAMPS===

====Download & Unpack====

====Download & Unpack====

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* Download GRAMPS 3.0.1 (latest version at time of writing) from the GRAMPS [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25770&package_id=109309 sorceforge.net] page.

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* Download GRAMPS 3.0.1 (latest version at time of writing) from the GRAMPS [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/ sourceforge.net] page.

* Unpack

* Unpack

% gtar zxvf gramps-3.0.1.tar.gz

% gtar zxvf gramps-3.0.1.tar.gz

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minver = map(int, string.split(\''''2.4'''\', '.')) + [0, 0, 0]

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minver = map(int, string.split('2.4', '.')) + [0, 0, 0]

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minver = map(int, string.split(\''''2.4'''\', '.')) + [0, 0, 0]

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minver = map(int, string.split('2.4', '.')) + [0, 0, 0]

=====src/gramps.py=====

=====src/gramps.py=====

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MIN_PYTHON_VERSION = (2, '''4''', 0, \'\', 0)

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MIN_PYTHON_VERSION = (2, 4, 0, '', 0)

=====gramps.sh.in=====

=====gramps.sh.in=====

Unlike other UNIX/Linux versions the default /bin/sh under Solaris is the older bourne shell. In order to allow the script to work we need to modify the first line of this file to read ksh (or bash if you prefer):

Unlike other UNIX/Linux versions the default /bin/sh under Solaris is the older bourne shell. In order to allow the script to work we need to modify the first line of this file to read ksh (or bash if you prefer):

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#!/bin/'''ksh'''

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#!/bin/ksh

=====src/gen/db/base.py=====

=====src/gen/db/base.py=====

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from '''bsddb3''' import db

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from bsddb3 import db

=====src/gen/db/dbdir.py=====

=====src/gen/db/dbdir.py=====

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from '''bsddb3''' import dbshelve, db

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from bsddb3 import dbshelve, db

=====src/Editors/_EditFamily.py=====

=====src/Editors/_EditFamily.py=====

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from '''bsddb3''' import db as bsddb_db

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from bsddb3 import db as bsddb_db

=====src/GrampsDbUtils/_GrampsBSDDB.py=====

=====src/GrampsDbUtils/_GrampsBSDDB.py=====

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from '''bsddb3''' import dbshelve, db

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from bsddb3 import dbshelve, db

=====src/GrampsLogger/_ErrorReportAssistant.py=====

=====src/GrampsLogger/_ErrorReportAssistant.py=====

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import sys, os,'''bsddb3'''

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import sys, os, bsddb3

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str('''bsddb3'''.__version__),

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str(bsddb3.__version__),

=====src/plugins/Leak.py=====

=====src/plugins/Leak.py=====

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from '''bsddb3'''.db import DBError

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from bsddb3.db import DBError

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====Configure GRAMPS====

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To configure GRAMPS all you need to do is run the configure script:

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./configure

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Othe roptions to configure that are useful include telling the script to setup GRAMPS to install in a directory of your choosing instead of the default (/usr/local):

Installing Dependencies

Even with the latest releases of Solaris/OpenSolaris a number of missing dependencies need to be resolved before you can install GRAMPS, namely Berkeley DB, Python BSDDB Interface and Python ReportLab.

You will need to install these dependencies before you can move forward and install GRAMPS.

Berkeley DB

Download the BSDDB core from www.oracle.com. For the GRAMPS 3.0.1 installation I've used Berkeley DB 4.5.20 (although 4.6/4.7 is available I found a number of db corruptions while using these later releases so I stuck with the trusted 4.5x version).

Installing GRAMPS

Download & Unpack

Download GRAMPS 3.0.1 (latest version at time of writing) from the GRAMPS sourceforge.net page.

Unpack

% gtar zxvf gramps-3.0.1.tar.gz
% cd gramps-3.0.1

Prebuild Changes

A small number of changes are needed prior to compiling and installing GRAMPS 3.0.1 on the Solaris platform

configure

Although the GRAMPS 3.0.1 package requires a python version of 2.5 or later. The Solaris build of python 2.4 works well with GRAMPS 3.0.1 and no issues have been noticed. Note: This change negates the need install a later release of python ;-)

change line 6297 of this file to read:

minver = map(int, string.split('2.4', '.')) + [0, 0, 0]

change line 6329 to read:

minver = map(int, string.split('2.4', '.')) + [0, 0, 0]

src/gramps.py

change line 97 to read:

MIN_PYTHON_VERSION = (2, 4, 0, , 0)

gramps.sh.in

Unlike other UNIX/Linux versions the default /bin/sh under Solaris is the older bourne shell. In order to allow the script to work we need to modify the first line of this file to read ksh (or bash if you prefer):

#!/bin/ksh

src/gen/db/base.py

change line 39 to read:

from bsddb3 import db

src/gen/db/dbdir.py

change line 39 to read:

from bsddb3 import dbshelve, db

src/Editors/_EditFamily.py

change line 28 to read:

from bsddb3 import db as bsddb_db

src/GrampsDbUtils/_GrampsBSDDB.py

change line 38 to read:

from bsddb3 import dbshelve, db

src/GrampsLogger/_ErrorReportAssistant.py

change line 5 to read:

import sys, os, bsddb3

change line 102 to read:

str(bsddb3.__version__),

src/plugins/Leak.py

change line 34 to read:

from bsddb3.db import DBError

Configure GRAMPS

To configure GRAMPS all you need to do is run the configure script:

./configure

Othe roptions to configure that are useful include telling the script to setup GRAMPS to install in a directory of your choosing instead of the default (/usr/local):